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World Panorama

492
Brazil | Portugese | Henrique Goldman

This film is a thrilling portrait of Julio Santana, an innocent and lost man, who confessed to murdering 492 perosns. Filmed like a Western it’s a true-life story set in contemporary north-eastern Brazil, a barren and wild landscape , a reign of violence and lawlessness where the life of every human being has a fixed price.

1985
USA | English | Yen Tan

Having been gone for three years. Adrian returns to his Texas hometown for holidays during the first wave of the AIDS crisis. Burdened with an unspeakable tragedy in New York city. Adrian looks to reconnect with his pre-teen brother Andrew while naviigating his relationship with religious parents Eileen and Dale. When he reaches out to his estranged childhood friend Carly, their unresolved issues force Adrian to confront an uncertain future that will significantly alter the lives of those around him.

Romy Schneider, the biggest female star in Europe of her time gives her last interview to two journalists in a spa hotel. One year before her death, Hilde, her close friend comes to offer her support. Two journalists from the STERN arrive to conduct an interview, for three days and nights, the interaction between the quarter ranges from sensitivity to brutal manipulation, Romy goes through an emotional roller coaster ride, but the end of it, she rediscovers her zest for life and the inner strength to carry on.

7 Emotions
Poland | Polish | Marek Koterski

Adas Miauczynski goes back to his childhood days when, he used to find it problematic to name the emotions that accompanied him. To improve the quality of his adult life, he decides to return to that time, which proves not so carefree after all to learn how to experience the seven basic emotions.
This extremely unpredictable journey into the past features an abundance of hilarious, even comical situations but is also filled with lots of touching moments and food for thoughts.

Pamela, a single mother, she lives with her grandmother and her little girl in a small hut where the three of them shares a bed. How can she reconcile the needs of her two- year old daughter and her dream of freedom?
Pamela embarks on a journey into the unknown, breaking away from the traditions that suffocate her. All she has are three words in French ” Lapin, pizza, amount” and the hope that marriage will change her and her daughters destiny.

Amin
France | French, Wolof | Philippe Faucon

Amin came from Senegal nine years ago to work in France, leaving behind is wife Aisha and their three children. Aisha sees her husband only once or twice a year, for a week or two, sometimes a month, she accepts this situation as a necessity: the money that Amin sends to Senegal provides for several people. So fat seperated from his wife, he has led a life devoted to duty and knew he had to remain vigilant. Though Amin is reserved and there is the language barrier, one day, Amin meets Gabrielle and a relationship starts between them.

An Elephant Sitting Still
China | Mandarin | Hu Bo

Set in the Northern Chinese City of Manzhouli, the story links together the lives of a number of protagonists, narrating the course of one single, tension filled day from dawn to dusk, and along the way, painting a potrait of the society marked by selfishness

An orange ship
Bangladesh | Bengali | Noor Imran Mithu

The story of the film revolves around a streamer named Rocket. Atik, who broads the ship as a first class passenger, has set fire to his own company to claim insurance money. He is travelling to his friend’s house to escape detection.On board the same is a man with the burnt body of a woman who worked in Atik’s factory.

Arthur (50) is terminally ill and wants to end his life in a euthanasia clinic in Amesterdam. ON the eve of his planned death he is being disturbed by an extremely loud noises from the hotel room next door. There he finds Claire (30), who wants to commit suicide. He manages to stop her and she takes him into the night life of Amsterdam and shows him there’s enough to live for. After the night is spent together they both return to their lives with renewed spirit.

Ash
China | chinese | Xiaofeng Li

A decade ago, a medical student and a steelworker becomes pen-friends. Off the page, passion and hatred mingle and two murders are committed, and the two friends part ways. A young police officer starts to investigate, but in vain. A decade later the steelworker returns to the the city. Meanwhile the police officer can’t shake off the unsolved mystery of the murder cases. The last ten years have made each of the characters fall deeper into webs of vice and desire. They must choose the path to salvation, or the road to hell.

The Aspern Papers
UK|Germany | English | Julien Landais

Autsajder
Poland | Polish | Adam Sikora

The protagonist of the film is Franek, a student of painting. Coincidentally he becomes involved and entangeled in the cogs of a horrific totalitarian machine. His sensitivity and humanity will be heavily tested. A story inspired by true events from the martial law period and the early 1980s.

Averno
Bolivia|Uruguay | Spanish | Marcos Loayza

Young bootblack, Tupah embarks on a frantic quest to find his uncle lost in the Averno, a place where the Andean inhabitants believe that the dead coexist with the living and where everything finds its opposite face. In a dangerous journey through the underworld, as myth and reality get endlessly intertwined, Tupah has to defeat the worst of his enemies and the greatest of his fears.

Back Home
Poland | Polish | Magdalena Lazarkiewicz

Ula, a young girl from a small town in Poland is kidnapped and taken to a brothel in Germany. Luckily she manages to escape and return home. However, the welcome she receives is far from warm, as the girl is ostracised the local conservative community.

During the Marijuana Bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigeneous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.

Black ’47
Ireland|Luxembourg | English|Irish | Lance Daly

Set in Ireland during the great famine, the drama follows an Irish Ranger who has beeh fighting for the British Army abroad, as he abandons his post to reunite with his family. Despite experiencing the horrors of war, he is shocked by the Famine’s destruction of his homeland and the brutalization of his people and his family.

The Bra
Germany | Azerbaijan | Ajerbaijan | Veit Helmer

Train driver, Nurlan is heading to Baku for the last time before retirement. One its way round the neighbourhoods of the city his train snags a blus bra off a washing line. To escape from hs lonely existence, Nurlan embarks on the most adventurous ourney of his life to find the owner of his perky piece of underwear.

Brothers
Netherlands | Dutch | Hanro Smitsman

Set in war-torn Syria, the film depicts the story of two brothers, Hassan and Mourad searching for their younger brother Yasin, an alleged extremist

Carmen & Lola
Spain | Spanish | Arantxa Echevarria

Carmen lives in a gypsy community in the suburbs of Madrid. One day she meets Lola, a Gypsy who dreams about going to university draws bird graffin and likes girls. Carmen quickly develops complicity with Lola and they discover a world that leads them to be rejected by their famiies, thus breaking the analogue.

Colette
UK/Hungary/Germany | English | Wash Westmoreland

After marrying a successful Parisian writer Who is commonly known as “Willy”.Willy Convinces Colette to ghostwrite for Him.She pens semi-autobiographical novel about a witty country girl Claudine , sparking a bestseller.Colette and Willy’s adventures inspire additional Claudine novels.Colette’s fight over creative ownership and gender roles begins thereafter, which drives her to overcome societal constraints.

Daughter Of Mine
Italy/Germany/Switzerland | Italian | Laura Bispuri

A daughter torn between two mothers: one, who raised her with love and her biological mother, who instinctively claims her back. The story of 3 women, struggling with primitive feelings, dealing with their wounds and inextricable bonds, involving imperfect motherhood and a wandering childhood.

Euphoria
Italy | Italian | Valeria Golino

Matteo is a succesful young entrepreneur. His brother Ettore is cautious, honest man who still lives in the small provincial town where they grew up and teaches there. They appear to be very different as people. But life forces back them together and a difficult situation provides the two brothers with the chance to know and discover each other in a vortex of fragility and euphoria.

The Gentle Indifference of the world
Kazakhstan/France | Kazakh | Adilkhan Yerzhanov

After her fathers death , Saltanat is forced to sacrifice her virtue in order to pay off the family debt and save her mother from imprisonment.She sets out for the big city along with her admirers, where she is to be sold by an uncle to a solvent groom. But a forced moral compromise will not save the situation.

In a cheap Parisian hotwl room, Oscar Wilde lies on his deathbed and the past floods back. He reviews the failed attempt to reconcile with his wife, Constance, the reprisal of his fatal love affair with Alfred Douglas. From Dieppe to Naples to Paris, Oscar always moves on, revered by a strange group of outlaws to whom he tells the old stories, with his incomparable wit still sharp.

The Harvesters is set in a white ethnic minority culture, in the region of South Africa. In this conservative farming territory obsessed with strength and masculinity. Janno is secretive and emotionally frail. One day his fiercely religious mother brings home Pieter, a hardened street orphan she wants to save, and asks Janno to makes his stranger into his brother. The two boys start a fight for power and parental love.

Monte and his daughter, Willow live toghether aboard a spacecraft in deep space.His sperm was used to inserminate the young woman who gave birth to her. They were the members of a crew of prisoners. Now only Monte and Willow remain. Through Willow, he experiences an all powerful love. Toghether father and daughter approach their destination, the black hole in which time and space cease to existz.

A Sacred Gaucho
Argentina | Spanish/Guarani | Joaquin Pedretti

A farm laborer crosses the mythical nature of the Ibera Wetlands in search of the child that he lost in an accident. In order to find it , he has to transform into a popular hero called “Gauchito Gil”, a local Robin Hood, and therefore die like the myth hanged from the ankles.

In the Aisles
Germany | Arabic | Thomas Stuber

Christian is new to the Superstore. He mutely plunges into this unknown universe, the endless aisles, the eternal order of the warehouses. Marion from the confectionary department likes to have a bit of laugh and joke with Christian, when he falls in love with her. But Marion is married, she goes on sick leave and christian falls into deep hole.

Kazantzakis
Greece | Greek| Yannis Smaragdis

Kazantzakis aims to potray the fascinating personality of Nikos Kazantzakis. The great Cretan writer uesd to say that his life was defined by his travels and his dreams. Based on his book “Report to Greco”, the movie captures his journeys to Germany, austria, Russia, France and Mount Sinai throuh these experiences, show his philosophical and metaphysical quest.

Lemonade
Germany | English, Romanian | Ioana Uricaru

Mata, a young Raomanian mother and nurse who moved to the United States several moths agofor work, has already become accustomed to the suspicious, questioning glances; a part of her life in America. By Morning she’s getting vaccinated, by afternoon, she’s taking her nine year old son to look at schools and by evening, she’s simply trying to keep peace with her new husband.

Little Tickles
France | French | Andréa Bescond, Eric Métayer

Eight year old Odette, likes to paint and laugh. Why would she be afraid of one of her parents’ friends who asks her to play a “little tickles” game? Once she has grown up, she opens up and delicates herself fully to her career as dancer , simultaneosly embracing life and letting go of her anger.

London Fields
UK/USA | English | Mathew Cullen

Clairvoyant femmefatale Nicola Six has been living with a dark premonition of her impending death by murder. She begans a tangled love affair with three uniquely different men; one of whom she knows will be her murderer.

Maine
USA | English | Matthew Brown

A married womans journey of self discovery and introspection while solo-hiking the Appalachian Trail ends up sidetraked, when she encounters a lone hiker.

Manta Ray
Thailand/France/China | Thai | Phuttiphong Aroonpheng

Near a coastal village of Thailand, by the sea where thousands of Rohingya refugees have drowned, a local fisherman finds a man lying unconcious in the forest. He rescues the stranger, and names him Thong Chai. But when the fisherman suddenly disappears at sea, Thong Chai begans to take over his life, his house, his job, his ex-wife.

Mug
Poland | Polish | Malgozata szumowska

After Fun loving Jacek is disfigured in an accident at work, he becomes the first person in Poland to receive a face transplant, which leads to his status as a national hero and martyr.

My Masterpiece
Argentina/Spain | Spanish | Gaston Duprat

Arturo is the owner of an art gallery in Buenos Aires; charming, sophiscatedbut rather unscrupulous.He represents Renzo, a complex and extremely unruly painter undergoing a steep decline. Their relationship is one of love and hate. One day Renzo suffers an accident and loses his memory.

Namdev Bhau In Search of Silence
Ukraine/India | Dar Gai

A 65 year old Cahuffeur, who is tired of the noises in the obstreperous Mumbai City life and has completely stopped speaking decides to leave everything in the search for “Silent Valley”.On this Journey, he chances upon an exasperating 12- year old boy, who happens to be on his own solo expedition.

Never Not Love You
Philippines | Filipino, Tagalog, English | Antoinette Jadaone

A young and reckless love ends when a couple take different paths in life. Five years later, they meet and discover musch has changed, including the love they had for each other.

Approaching 50, singer songwriter Nico leads a solitary low key existence in Manchester, far from her 60s glam days as a warhol superstar and celebrated vocalist for the cult band, the Velvet underground. She doesn’t care much anymore about her looks nor her career.But her new manager Richard convinces her to hit the road again and tour Europe to promote her latest album.

The Old Road
Iran | Persian | Manijeh Hekmat

Minoo is a 45 years oldd successful woman, works in a bank. At the night of the New Year she takes a taxi to go home but gets into an annoying accident. The story is about her struggle with what happened on that night.

Once Upon a Time In November
Poland | Polish | Andrzej Jakimowski

The film situates itself at the heart of political developments in Poland, torn apart by ideolgical divides. Mareczek is a law student whos is trying to set up overnight quarters for his mother and his small dog on the streets.Mareczek’s walks through the city illustrate a disturbing portrait of a fragile sociey, where the leap from middle-class existence to homeless and violence is all too small.

The Originals
Egypt | Arabic | Marwan Hamed

Samir Eliwa is the head of a small amily, an employee in a bank for years, but he suddenly gets fired after a decision to reduce labour. During his search for a job he discovers that his bank account is depleted, few days later he opens the door to find cell-phone in it and he recieves a phone call that changes his life forever.

Petra
Spain/France | Spanish,Catalan | Jaime Rosales

After the death of her mother she embarks on a search that leads her to Jaume. Petra also meets Jaume’s son, Lucas, as well as Marisa, his mother and Jaume’s wife. That is when the sories of these charactrs begin to intertwine in a spirit of incidents that drives them all to the edge. But fate’s cruel logic is derailed by a twist that opens a path of hope and redemption.

Phoenix
Norway | Norwegien | Camilla Strøm Henriksen

Pity
Greece/Poland | Greek | Babis Makridis

The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy, a man who is addicted to sadness, who has such need for pity, he’s doing everything to evoke it from others. This is the life of a man in a world not cruel enough for him.

The Pluto Moment
China | Chinese | Ming Zhang

A film director living in Shanghai travels to the deep moutains of southwest China, seeking the inspiration for his films in the traditional song of mourning “The Tale of Darkness”. He is accompanied by a producer, a young actor just beggining his career; and a videographer. Along the trip, the relationships among the crew members change and the trip begins to lose its direction.

The Prize
Italy | Italian | Alessandro Gassman

Giovanni Passamonte has lived an unrestrained life along side his several international best sellers, but the time has turned him into a cynical and egocentric men man. When he is told that he ha swon the Nobel Prize in Literature, afraid of Flying he decides to embark on a car journey to Stockholm with his long time assistance Rinaldo.

Rage
Portugal | Portugese | Sérgio Tréfaut

Set in Portugal, 1950. In the desolate landscape of the south, battered by the win, by misery and hunger, sudden violence erupts: a succession of cold blooded murders occurs over a single night. Why? What’s the origin of these crimes?

Masato, a young Ramen chef, leaves his hometown in Japan to embark on a culinary journey to Singapore to find out the truth about his past. He uncovers a lot more than family secrets and delicious recipes.

Regarding the case of Joan of Arc
USA | English | Matthew Wilder

Roobha
Canada | Tamil, English | Lenin M. Sivam

Roobha, a young South Asian trans-woman, struggles to make a living after she is ostracized by her family. unable to make a decent living, she walks the streets of Toronto, and one day, is violently assaulted y a group of thugs. she heals withthe help of her well-wishers. Her chance encounter with a family man, Anthony, leads to a rapturous romance. However, trouble starts when their families discover their relationship.

Rust
Brazil | Portugese | Aly Muritiba

Tati and Renet were already trading pictures, videos and music from their cellphones and on the last school trip they started making eye contact.Howewer, what could be the beggining of a love story , becomes an end.

Sealed Lips
Germany | German | Bernd Böhlich

Antonia Berger, a young German and enthusiastic Communist, goes to the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Whilst there, she is accused of spying and sent to Vorkuta’s labor camp. After being released from the gulag in 1952, she manages to return home to the new socialist East German state with her daughter Lydia. Antonia is forced by her party comrades to keep her terrible experiences secret for the common good. It is only after Stalin’s death that she speaks out about her time in the Soviet Union. But her newly regained freedom is taken away from her again when her lover, a committed Communist, informs the authorities. Antonia has to make a choice – between truth or the present.

The Seen and the Unseen
Indonesia | Indonesian, Balanese | Kamila Andini

In a hospital room, 10 year old Tantri, realises she will not have much more time with her brother, Tantra. Tantra’s brain is weakening and he has began to lose his senses. He now spends most of his time lying in bed. This situation opens up something in Tantris mind; she keeps walking up in the night from a dream and seeing Tantra.The night becomes their playground.

Slut in a Good Way
Canada | French | Sophie Lorain

Charlottes beau drops a bomb on her: he’s gay. She is crushed when she learns it.Along with her best friends, Charlotte seeks distraction through a job at a toy store. Still heartbroken, she starts having casual sex with a few of her new coworkers. Initially , she loves her new freedom. Others around her, howewer, feel differently, leading them to smear Charlotte’s name and challenge her new found sexual empowerment.

Sorry Angel
France | French | Christophe Honoré

Set in Paris, 1993.Jacques is a semi renowned writter and single father in his thirties trying to maintain his sense of romance and humour in spite of the turmoil in his life. While on a work trip to Brittany, he meets Arthur, an aspiring filmmaker in his early twenties, who is experiencing a sexual awakening and is eager to get out of his parochial life. Arthur becomes instantly smitten with the older man.

On a quest through Kyrgyzstan’s countryside to reach a storied healing mountain, a disjointed family made up of con artist, his two wives, and a son newly recovered from an orphanage,face unpredictable circumstances around every bend and discover much more than they bargained for.

The Sweet Requiem
USA|India | Tibetan | Ritu Sarin, Tenzing Sonam

Dolkar, a 26 years old exxile Tibetan, lives in Delhi. 18 years ago she escaped freom Tibet with her father making a trek across the Himalayas that ended in tragedy of which Dolkar has suppressed all recollection. but when she encounters Gompo the guide who abandoned them memories of her escape are reignited. Caught in aweb of politically intrigued quest, Dolkar must reconcile Gompo’s treachery with the life or death situations he now faces.

Robertina, a women well-acquianted with her anxieties is readying a theater production, a one woman show she wrote and stars in. They’re just touching up her smile on the posters, but is Robertina happy in her Life? No: Her Husband left her and her best friend is dying of cancer. She faces fierce, unrelenting fear. Robertina must prove that she can use it as a creative force.

To the Desert
Argentina | Spanish | Ulises Rosell

Julia, a casino employee from Comodoro Rivadavia, is tempted by Gwynfor a Welsh descendent who promises her an administrative position at the oil company where he works.
A kidnapping is the trigger for a relationship that will change as the days go by. Julia and Gwynfor cross the Patagonian desert on foot while Commission Ptieto and his assistants follow their footsteps.

To The Ends of the World
France | French | Guillaume Nicloux

Indo-China 1945. Robert Tassen a young French soldier is the only survivor of a massacre where his brother perished before his eyes. Blinded by vengence Robert engages in a solitary and secret quest to find the assassins. But his meeting with Mai a young Indo-Chinese woman will change his beliefs.

The Trouble with You
France | Russian | Pierre Salvodori

Ina town on the French Riviera, dectective Yvonne is the widow of police chief Santi. When she realises her husband was not exactly the model of virtue idolized by their young son and that an innocent young man has spent 8 years in prison due to do everything she can to help this very charming Antoine get back to his life and his wife.

U-July 22
Norway | Norwegien | Eric Poppe

We meet Kaja (18), 12 minutes before the first shot is fired at the Utoya summer camp on july 22nd 2011, soon is to be the worst day in modern Norway’s history. They know about Anders Behring Breivik’s bonb in Oslo, but is he here now?

The Widowed Witch
China | Mandarin | Chengjie Cai

Erhao’s third husband, Dayong, dies during an explosion at the firework factory. It also burned down their home but Erhao survived. In order to regain her strength and get back on her feet after the accident she moves to in with her family. After arriving at their home she’s raped by her brother in law. Marked by failure she decides to traverse northern China in search of her place.

On a farm in the Jura far from the surrounding villages Pauline and Alex realised their dream gto achieve definitive independence by producing electri city independently. Samuel, a pragmatic and cheerful engineer comes to the farm to direct the construction of the wind turbine. Pauline immediately feels attracted to him and sudeenly realises the limits of his life.

Mara and Hedus set out in search of adventures by car. After all Mara’s turning fifteen soon. A road movie about the flies that occasionally buzz around even in winter and a story before it ends at tghe police station that tells the story of the elusive bond of boyhood friendship and the irrepressible desire to experience something even if you dont exactly know what.

Country Focus

Footnote
Israel | Hebrew | Joseph Cedar

A great rivalry between a father and son, both professors in the Tilmund department of Hebrew University. The son has an addictive deendency on the embrace and accolandes that the establishment provides, while his father is a stubborn purist with a fear and profound revulsion for what the establishment stands for, beneath his contempt lays a desperate thrist for some kind of recognition. Israel most prestigious national award, is ‘the jewel’ that brings these two to a final, bitterconfrontation.

Longing
Israel | Hebrew, French | Savi Gabizon

A middle-aged Israeli bachelor is forced to evaluate his life choices when he discovers an ex-girlfriend had given birth to his son 20 years ago.

Para Aduma
Israel | Hebrew | Tsivia Barkai Yacov

Redemption
Israel | Hebrew | Joseph Madmony, Boaz Yehonatan Yaakov

Menachem, a former front man for a rock band, is now religious, and a father to a 6 years old. When his daughter is diagnosed with cancer, he must fund the expensive treatments. He reunites his band for one last tour. The journey to save his daughter exposes old wounds and allows him to reconnect with his secular past. Menachem understands that only a new connection to his past and to his music can pave the road to his own redemption.

Shalom Bollywood reveals the unlikely story of the 2000 year old Indian jews community and its formative place in shaping worlds largest film industry.

The Bubble
Israel | Hebrew, Arabic, English | Eytan Fox

The movie looks at young people’s lives in Tel Aviv. It all begins when Noam , a young Israeli soldier, who serves in the reserve force, meets a Palestinian, young man called Ashraf at a check point. Following an incident during which Noam misplaces hi ID card at the check point,Ashraf shows up on the doorstep of the apartment that Noam shares with a gay man and straight woman. The film is aout how meeting affects all of their lives.

The Other Story
Israel | Hebrew, English | Avi Nesher

In ‘ The Other Story’ , two rebellious young women, one fleeing the chaos of secularhedonism for the disciplined comforts of faith; the other desperate to transcend her oppressive religious upbringing for sexual and spiritual freedom, cross paths unexpectedly in Jerusalem to startling consequences.

The Unorthodox
Israel | Hebrew, Yiddish | Eliran Malka

This is a film based on a real story about a single father whose daughterwas expelled from school for ethnic reasons, he decides to run for the city elections and almost single handedly establises the first ethnic political group in Israel which today is an empire with half a million voters and significant implications to society.

Waltz with Bashir
Israel, France, Germany | Hebrew | Ari Folman

Working Woman
Israel | Hebrew | Michal Aviad

Life at work becomes unbearable for Orna. Her boss appreciates and promises her, while making inappropriate advances. Her husband struggles to keep his new restaurant aflost, and Orna becomes the main breadwinner for their three children. When her world is finally shattered,she must pull herself together to fight, in her own way, for her job and a sense of self worth.

Retrospective of Masters

Summer With Monika
Sweden | Swedish | Ingmar Bergman

Harry is a young errand boy in a crockery warehouse. When by chance he meets Monika, a wild erotic girl working in a neighbouring grocer’s shop, he is immidiately infatuated. Monika has a quarrel with her father and decides to ”borrow” a motor boat for a holiday with Harry in the archipelago outside Stockholm. Towards the end of an idyllic period on a remote island, Monika announces that she is pregnant. Harry agrees to do the proper thing and marry her.
They move into a shabby flat, and Monika is soon disgruntled with the unglamorous tasks of motherhood. Harry returns from a business trip to find that she has been sleeping with another man in his absence. There is a row, and monika, flounces out of the flat. Harry is left alone with the baby, not knowing what the future may bring.

Wild Strawberries
Sweden | Swedish | Ingmar Bergman

The Seventh Seal
Sweden | Swedish | Ingmar Bergman

Persona
Sweden | Swedish | Ingmar Bergman

Elisabet Vogler is a a famous actress. In the middle of performance of Electra, she falls silent. Even prolonged treatment at a psychiatric clinic fails to make her speak. The doctor incharge suggest to her nurse. Alma that she should spend some time in isolation on the coost with their patience. Faced by the obstinate yet also sympathetic silence of Elisabet, Alma begins to tell her more than she should. Impressed by the physical resemblance between the two of them, she even identiies herself, subconsciously, with the actress. But the friendship is disturbed when Alma discovers from an unsealed letter to the doctor that the actress is observing her coollly and amusedly. Alma now becomes almost hysterical, trying to project her own feelings of guilt and anguish on to Elisabet, urging her wildly to speak. But at the clinic, Alma breaks down after a final outburst.

Autumn Sonata
Sweden | Swedish | Ingmar Bergman

Fanny and Alexander
Sweden | Swedish | Ingmar Bergman

Saraband
Sweden | Swedish | Ingmar Bergman

Marianne and Johan meet again after thirty years without contact, when Marianne suddenly feels a need to see her ex- husband again. She decides to visit Johan at his old summer house in the western province of Dalarna. And, so one beautiful autumn day, there she is beside his reclining chair, waking him with a light kiss. Staying at a cottage on the property are Johan’s son, Henrik and Henrik’s daughter Karin. Henrik is giving his daughter cellos lesson. and already sees her future as staked out. Relations between father are very strained, but both are protective of Karin. They are still mourning Anna, Henrik’s much-loved wife who died two years ago yetwho, in many ways, remains present among them. Marianne soon realises that things are not all as they should be, and she finds herself unwillingly drawn into a complicated and upsetting power struggle.
Richard Corliss in Time Magazine wrote, ‘This is a testament of love and anguish from the man who used to be called the greatest living filmmaker. Well, dammit, he was. And, as proves he still is.”

In the film, Ingmar Bergman, one of the world’s most important and influential filmmakers is eighty-five years old, having spent more than sixty of those years directing. Now, for the first time, he shows us his world on the desolate and mysterious Baltic island of Faro. A man whose only company is the sea and his demons. Together with filmmaker Marie Nyrerod, he looks back on his life and on his long career in films, the theatre and TV. This documentary includes numerous clips from Bergman’s best films and unique behind-the scenes materials from his private archives. His Oscars winning film Through a Glass Darkly although to Bergman is important for a completely different reason. He was looking for a barren stony island and someone suggested Faro. That proved to be a turning point in his life. Ingmar Bergman shot five more films on Faro among them Persona and Scenes from a Marriage.
But more important, he found a place to rest and a home.

Homages

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a remarkably talented young Viennese composer ho unwittingly finds a fierce rival in the disciplined and determined Antonio Salieri. Resenting Mozart, for both his hedonistic lifestyle and his undeniable talent, the highly religious Salieri is gradually consumed by his jealousy and becomes obsessed with Mozart’s downfall, leading to a devious scheme that has dire consequences for both men.

In the Line of Fire
USA | English | Wolfgang Petersen

A Secret Service agent is taunted by calls from a would-be killer who has detailed informtion about the agent incluing he failed to save Prsident John F. Kennedy from assassination. The caller is revealed as an ex- CIA assassin, who is threat to the current president is not to let history epeat itself.

Oliver!
UK | English | Carol Reed

In this award-winning adaptation of the Broadway musical based on the Charles Dickens’ novel, 9-years-old orphan , Oliver Twist falls in wih a group of street-urchin pickpockes led by the criminal, Fagin. When Oliver intended mark, Mr. Brownlow takes pity on the lad and offers him a home, Fagin’s Henchman, Bill Sikes plot o kidnap the boy and keep him for talking.

Centenary Award for the Best Debut Feature Film of a Director

Night Comes On
USA | English | Jordana Spiro

Angel LaMere is released from juvenile detention on the eve of her 18th birthday. Haunted by her past, Angel embarks on a journey with her 10 year old sister to avenge her mother’s death.

Respeto
Philippines | Tastalog | Debut Competition

Hendrix dreams of a hip- hop greatness, but he is spiralling down a rabbit-hole of crime andd poverty. When Hendrix meets Doc, an old poet still haaunted by his martial law past, an unlikely mentorship begains, but can they turn each other’s lives around before they are swallowed by circumstance?

Vlada works as a truck driver during the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999. Tasked with transporting mysterious load from Kosovo to Beelgrade, he drives through unfamiliar territory, trying to make his way in a country scarred by the war. He knows that once the job is over, he will need to return home and face the consequencess.

The Pigeon
Turkey | Turkish | Banu Sivaci

Only on the roof of her parents house, above the alleys of a slum in Adana, with his beloved pigeons, can Yusuf find peace and ind hiself. Finding a foothold in the dystopian world outsie is more difficult for him.

Volcano
Ukraine|Germany | Ukranian | Roman Bondarchuk

Lukas has been left stranded near a small southern Ukrainian steppe town by a series of odd coincidences. With nowhere to turn, this boy finds shelter at the home of a local named Vova. With the guidence of Vova, Lukas confronts a universe beyond his imagination. Facinated by his host and his host’s daughter Marushka, with whom he is rapidly falling in love, lukas’s contempt for provincial life slowly melts away and sets him on a quest for a happiness he had never knoen could exist.

To Let
India | Tamil | Chezhiyan Ra

Abyakto
India | Bengali | Arjun Dutta

Abyakto is a poignant tale ofa mother an her son, Indra. The film captures a series of unexplained and unusal events which turn Indra into a men he never thought he would become.These events unfold through the film’s three most integral charecters: Indra’s mother, Saathi his father, Kaushil his father’s friend and his favorite uncle Rudra. Thefim travels through various time lapses and captures the stirring and unexplainable situations and the intricacies and complexities of various relationship.

Sketch on Screen

Power hungry Prime Minister-turned-General Cao Cao organizes a southward – bound mission designed to crush two troublesome warlords, Liu Bet and Sun Quan. As the expedition gets under way, Cao Cao’s troops rain destruction on Liu Bet’s army forcing the latter to retreat. Their only hope for survival is to form an alliance with rival warlord Sun Quan, they reach out to Sun Quan’s trusted advisor, war hero Zhou Yu. Vastly outnumbered by Cao Cao’s fast approaching, brutal army the rebel warlords band together to mount a heroic campaign unrivalled in history that changes the face of China forever.

Gatturo
Argentina | Spanish | Gustavo Cova

Gaturro always gets into trouble,and his master doesn’t know what to do with him. Gaturro’s heart belongs to Agatha, the most unpleasant cat of the town. His several attempts to conquer her love disapper when she stumbles across Michou, a young, handsome cat from an aristocratic background. Gaturro accidently becomes famous but finds that fame and success brings other problems.
Gaturro sad and lonely but with the help of a little mouse, they come up with a plan to prevent Agatha marrying Michou.

Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on quest to find Rick Deckard a former LAPD blade runner who has been mising for 30 years.

Festival Kaleidoscope

3 Faces
Iran | Persian | Jafar Panahi

Actress, Behnaz Jafari is distraught when she comes across a young girl’s video plea for help after her family prevents her from taking up her studies at the Tehran drama conservatory. Behnaz abandons her shoot and turns to filmmaker, Jafar Panahi to help with the young girl’s troubles. They travel by car to the rural Northwest, where they have amusing encounters with the charming and generous folk of the girl’s mountain village. But Behnaz and Jafar also discover that old tradirions die hard.

At the edge of Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula, two women’s lives will intersect for a brief moment. While trapped in circumstances unforseen. Between a struggling Icelandic mother and an asylum seeker from Guinea-Bissau, a delicate bond will form as both strategize to get their lives back on track.

Ash is purest white
China | Chinese, Mandarin | Zia zhangke

Qiao is in love with Bin, a local mobster. During a fight between a rival gangs, she fires a gun to protect him. Qiao get five years in prison for this act of loyalty. Upon her release, she goes looking for Bin to pick up where they left off.

At War
France | French | Stéphane Brizé

Despite heavy financial sacrifices on the part of their employees and record profits that year, the management of Perrin Industries decides to shut down a factory. 1100 employees. led by their spokesman, Laurent Amedeo, decide to fight this brutal decision, ready to do everything to save their jobs.

Climax
France | English | Gasper Noe

Young dancers gather in a remote and empty school building to rehearse on a cold and wintry night. The all night celebration soon turns into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn that their sangria is laced with LSD.

Cold war is a passionate love story between man and a women who meet in the runs of post war Poland. With different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatally mismatched and yet fatefully condemned to each other. Set against the background of the cold war in the 1950s in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris., the couple separated by politics, character flaws and unfortunate twists of fate, an impossible love story in impossible times.

Dogman
Italy|France | Italian | Matteo Garrone

Dogman takes place in an Italian suburb somewhere between metropolis and wild nature. marcello, A small and gentle dog groomer, finds himself involved in dangerous relationship of subjugation with Simone, a former violent boxer who terrorizes the entire neighborhood. In an effort to reaffirm his dignity, Marcello will submit to an unexpected act of vengeance.

Grass
South Korea | Korean | Sang-soo Hong

Down an alley, there is a coffeehouse where people sit and talk amongst themselves. Opposite the coffeehouse, the owner of a small grocery has planted various kinds of vegetables that sprout up inside large rubber basins. As time passes, the people sitting at different tables grows familiar with each other and starts to mix. One woman observes the others and writes down her thoughts.

The film follows the highly intelligent Jack, through 5 incidents and introduces us to the murders that define Jacks development as a serial killer. The story is told from Jack’s point of view. He views each murders as an artwork in itself. Despite the fact that the final and inevitable police intervention is drawing ever near, he is, contrary to all logic, set on taking greater chances. Along the way we experinces Jack’s descriptions of his personal condition, problems and thoughts through a recurring conversation with the unknown Verge.

A group of people set sail on an warship. The passengers include a senator with his son , a newly-wed couple, a mysterious old man, a group of sex workers and a gang of criminals. At first the aggressive behavior of the thugs is directed at the first class passengers, but then in a dramatic interpersonal downward spiral, the cruel fight ultimately veers into the fantstical.

Do you still remember how, long ago, we trained our thoughts? Most often we’d start from a dream. We wondered how, in total darkness, colours of such intensity could emerge within us. In a soft, low voice saying great things, surprising, deep and accurate matters. Image and words like, a bad bream written on a stormy night. Under western eyes. The lost paradises. War is here.

Shoplifters
Japan | Japanese | Hirokazu Koreeda

After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first, reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces. Althrough the family is poor, barely making enough money to survive through petty crime, they seem to live happily together until an unforeseen incident reveals hidden secrets, testing the bonds that unite them.

Summer
Russia | Russian | Kirill Serebrennikov

Leningrad, one summer in the early 80s’s. Summgling LP’s by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the Underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Petesroika. Mike and his beautiful wife, Natasha meet with young Viktor Tsoi. Together with friends they will change the destiny of rock ‘n’ roll in the Soviet Union.

The film centers on a filmmaker and characters she documents who together venture into a deep personal soul searching on how to achieve real human intimacy. On the border between reality and fiction the film follows the emotional and sexual journey of various diverse subjects offering deeply empathic insights into their personal lives. Craving intimacy, yet also deeply afraid of it each of them work to overcome old patterns defence mechanisms and taboos to cut the cords of inhibition and finally be free.

Vision
Japan|France | Japanese | Naomi Kawase

Jeanne comes to Japan in search of ‘Vision’ a rare medicinal herb said to strip away all spiritual anguish and weakness in human beings. she knows that Vision only apppears once every 997 years. Aki, a wise villager who knows the forest well prophesies the arrival of the mysterious ‘One’ and then disappears. Tomo who is devoted to Aki, works as a keeper of the forests and is beginnings to sense instinctively recent changes in the mountains. will Jeanne succeed in finding the phantom herb ‘Vision’.

The Wild Pear Tree
Turkey | Turkish | Nuri Bilge ceylan

Sinan is passionate about literture and has always wanted to be a writer. Returning to the village where he was born, he pours his heart and soul into scraping together the money he needs to be published but his father’s debts catch up with him.

Halla leads a double life as a passionate environmental activists. she secretly wages a one-woman-war on the local aluminium industry. But as she begins planninig her biggest and boldest operation yet her application to adopt a child gets accepted and there is a little girl waiting for her in Ukraine. As Halla prepares to abandon her role as saboteur and saviour of the Highlands, to fulfil her dreams of becoming a mother she decides to plot one final attack to deal the aluminium industry a crippling blow.

ICFT UNESCO Gandhi Medal

Baaram
India | Tamil | Priya Krishnaswamy

karuppaswamy, a widowed night watchman, live with his sister and three nephews, Veera, Muni and Murugun in a small town in Tamil Nadu. While returning from his shift one morning, he breaks his hip in an accident. While his nephews want him to be treated in town, his son Senthil takes him to his ancestral village, to be healed by a a tradiditional healer. After Eight days, Kuruppaswamy dies. At his funral, Veea hears something that makes his blood run cold. How did Kuruppaswamy die?

Border
Sweden | Swedish | Ali Abbasi

Custom officer, Tina is known for her extraordinary sense of smell. But when Vore, a suspicious looking man, walks past her abilities are challenged for the first time ever. Tina can sense Vore is hiding something she cant identify. Even worse, she feels a strange attraction towards him. As Tina develops a speacial bond with Vore and discovers his true identify, she also realises the truth about herself.

Capernaum
Lebanon | Arabic | Nadine Labaki

This is a politically-charged fable, featuring mostly non-professional actors, about a child who launches a lawsuit against his parents. In a courtroom, Zain, a 12 year old boy faces the judge. The judge asks him, why he wants to sue his own parents. Zain replies that he wants to sue them fo giving birth to him.

Dovlatov
Russia/Poland/Serbia | Russian | Aleksei German

Dovlatov charts six days in the life of brilliant, ironic writer, Sergei Dovlatov who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Together with his friend and poet Joseph, he fought to preserve his own talent and integrity while seeing their artist friends getting crushed by the iron-willd state machinery, which they would later escape by emigrating to New York, losing all they had back home.

Laugh or Die
Finland|Sweden | Finnish, German | Heikki Kujanpää

In a detention camp in 1918, a group of Finish actors are sentenced to death. When an important German general arrives, th camp’svicious commandant forges out a cruel plan. The priosoners have to perform a play, andif they can make the visiting general laugh they will be spared. Due to the brutal conditions within the camp, this goal see to be impossible to reach. But after some time, even the commandant’s wife starts to sympathize with the prisoners, watching them rehearsing dressed up in women’s clothes.

Nuria, 12, Fabio, 9 , and their mother Amparo arrive in a small island in the middle of Amazonia, at the border of Brazil, Colombia and Peru. They ran away from the Colombian armed conflict in which their father disappeared. One day, he reappears in their new house.The family is haunted by this strange secret and discovers the island is peopled with ghosts.

Rain of Homs
Syria | Arabic | Joud Said

Yusuf and his nephew were planning on leaving Homs on the day a ceasefire was declared in 2014. Yet Homs held them back and made them meet Yara, a stubborn girl with a very different perspective and background. She is searching for her missing brother, hoping she can find him in what is left of their beautiful city. Trapped in a city that became a grave to all who stayed in it, this is a tale of people with so many different perspectives who had to endure the long wait that the war imposed on them.

Ali Ungar travels to Vienna in search of the former Nazi officer who might have executed his parents in Slovakia. He finds only his son, Grog. But Ali’s visit awakes his intrest, and two men take off on a journey across Slovakia in search of surviving witnesss of the wartime tragedy. Their different views and life experiences result in both tensions and comic moments. For the two men, it’s a bittersweet road trip on which they discover deep unresolved conflicts being washed ashore in new forms.

At the outbreak of the second Congo War, Sergeant Xavieer and young private Faustin are accidentally left behind in the jungle. With only each other to count on,they embark on an odyssey across the most voilent forest on the earth, facing the depths of their own war-torn souls

The Rib
China | Chinese | Zhang Wei

Li Jianguo, a devout Christian, volunteers at a church. He finds out that his only son, Li Huanyu, plans to have sex reassignment surgery. He seeks guidance from others and recevies various feedbacks.When Liu Mann, one of his son’s transgender friends, commits suicide out of desperation, he renews his effort to better connect with his son.

The Silent Revolution
Germany | German, Russian | Lars Kraume

During a vist to a cinema, East German high school pupils, Theo and Kurt see disturbing newsreel footage of the uprising in Budapest. Back in Stalinstadt, they have the idea of holding a minute’s silence in the class for the victims of the Hungarian struggle for freedom. The boys are not prepared for the minor and major reactions that their exprssion of solidarity unleashes. The pupils find themselves snared in the political machinery of a state that cndemn act as counter-revolutionary.

Walking With the Wind
India | Hindi | Praveen Morchhale

International Competition

53 Wars
Poland | Polish | Ewa Bukowska

53 Wars is an evocative psyhological drama about second hand experience of war.Anka, whose husband, Witek is a war correspondent spends most of each year away on assignments. Anka must endure the horrors of war from home. The testmonies Witek passes on to the world feed Anka’s solitude. Anka, swoly becomes more and more hysterical and paranoid ,over the safety of her husband.

Russian literature professor,Malin is deputed by the government , to a local hospital, where he learns that is is expected to act as a translatorbetween the Cuban doctors and the families of young patients from the Chernobyl disaster. Malin eventually becomes “King of the Kids” at the hospital, his relationship with his pregnant wife and young son suffer. Meanwhile, life around all of them shifts as the economic crisis in Cuba that followed the dissoulation of the Soviet Union.

Aga
Bulgaria/Germany/France | Yakut | Milko Lazarov

In the snowy Northern wilderness, Nanook and Sedna live isolated. Each day for them is diifcult one, as their enivonment becomes more and more unpredicatable with ice melting earlier each year. Their only connection to outside world is Chena. Their Estranged daughter,Aga, left to work in a diamond mine. Eventually a long journey ensures in the hope of reunion.

Nour and Amine don’t know each other. They meet in a house, near the city of Timimoun, in the Algerian Sahara. They are supposed to launch an arm action against oil refinery. But tjings don’t turn out quite as expected.

In Donbass, a region of Eastern Ukraine , a hybrid war takes place, involving an open arm conflict alongside killings androbberies on a mass scal perpetrated by separatist gangs. In Donbass, war is called peace and propaganda is utter as truth. A journey through Donbass unfolds as a curious adventures. This is a tale of one region or a political system. It is about a world , lost in post-truth and fake identities.

After directing a film , Yang Shu has been forced to live in exile in Hong Kong. But when her mother has to undergo an operation, the two women plan to meet in Taiwan where Yang will b attending a film festival and where her mother will b taking a tour. They stay at the same hotel and follow the tour on its various scenic destinations.

Here
Iran | Persian | Hadi Mohaghegh

Its night and everything is happening in an endless silence. The lonely and tired old man is walking around. He’s thinking of saing his son, Sohrab. However, all doors are closed.He’s involved in a cycle of daily life and he ‘s not able to change anything. Inspite of all efforts, the son is executed . He takes the body of his son, which looks like a white poplar tree , through the mountain rivers and baptizes him. The old man takes care of his grandson too before he returns to bury his son.

Our Struggles
Belgium/France | French | Guillaume Senez

While Olivier, a 39 years old foreman gives his job everythting he’s got, Laura, his wife and the mother of their two children, abandons the family, leaving Olivier alone to face his responsibilities. Lost and completely thrown , Olivier is going to come to terms with his new status as a single father raising his children alone,because Laura’s not coming back.

The film consists of three chapters. It employs a theme known in Scandinavian folklore. The time frame of the story from the early morning is wedding day until the early morning of the following day. The leading character Maara is a young bride whos is about to start her life in her new family. The Virgin, set in the spring of 1949, tells the story of a young woman called Elina, who has been deported from Ingria to Estonia during the previous war. The shadow moves in the present, on the border of real life and fantasy.

The Unseen
Argentina | Spanish / English | Nicolas Puenzo

A pregnant Quechua girl and her Creole partner escapes from a refugee camp. On their trek south across the Bolivian Highlands, now a barren wasteland controlled by bloody militia groups, they meet Ruiz, 50 years old, war-scarred photographer who seeks to save them from warzone , salvaging whatwhat remains of their humanity

Van Goghs
Russia | Russian | Sergey Livnev

Mark Ginzburg is a talented artist who is always deprssed. he’s 52, but personal and professional success has escaped him. Many years ago, Mark moved from his native Riga to Tel Aviv to get away from his oppressive father, Viktor , who still supports him financially. For his father, Victor Ginzburg, work is his life. Their highs and lows turned long ago into a love-hate relationship. More hate than love. After Viktor is diagnosed with a fatal illness, the father and son sets off on a difficult journey that leads them from hate to love.

When the Trees Fall
Ukraine/Poland | Ukrainian | Marysia Nikitiuk

This is the story of the 5 years old rebellious girl,Vitka with her teenae cousin, Larysa and he boyfriend, the young criminal,Sear. Larysa finds herself at a crossroad after the death of her father. The village community ostracizes her for loving scar. Larysa discovers her grandmother once sacrifised her love for a young gypsy, abandoning him for traditional values and other people’s opinions. Larysa and Scar plans to escape from a life of crime ,misrey and their relatives. But are they ready to pay the full price for their freedom?

Jesus Mary Joseph
India | Malayalam | Lijo Jose Pellissery

Vavachan, a master mason belonging to the Latin Catholiccommunity in Kerala , shares memories his father’s barial with his son Eesy. He expresses a desire of a grand funeral for himself which Eesy promises. After Vavachan’s sudden death, Eesy tries to arrang a decent funeral for him but is met with unpredictable obstacles and reactions from different quarters. The subsequent events brings the fore conflict within the family and the deep ethical crisis simmering in the community.

To Let
India | Tamil | Chezhiyan Ra

To Let is the story of a couple with a child living in a rented accommodation in Chennai. It takes place in 2007 when the metro city was experiencing a real estate boom as a result of an exponential development of the IT sector. A little too greedy for a higher rent, the land owner asks the couple to vacate their house. They have only thirty days to find new accommodation with their modest middle-class income. On their Mopeds, the couple starts a race against time and all kinds of prejudice to get a house.

Fear
India | Malayalam | Jayaraj

A First Worl War veteran is coming to a small blackwater vilage in Kerala, India, as a Postman. He is distributing money orders and letter to the family of soldiers as a symbol of happiness. He turns out to be an Omen of death once the Second World War tstarts. The pain and impact of the War is shown through the telegrams and postman’s dilemma.